Theological Quotes - Page 5

• I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

  Darcey Steinke

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Religious, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!

  Fanny Fern

  Sorry, Fighting, Laughing

  Fanny Fern (2017). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.90, Litres

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• Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sacrifice, Religion, Firsts

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.240, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence.  If our faith does not throw us into the arms of the world, if it does not lead to our experience of responsibility, love, celebration, and our commitment to transformation, then, whatever we call it, we have nothing but an empty shell.

  Peter Rollins

  Commitment, Responsibility, Doe

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• In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

  Rick Perlstein

  Religious, Qualms About, Qualms

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• A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Believe, Philosophical, Abortion

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• A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction Stories, World, Moral

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.

  J. I. Packer

  Book, Character, Scripture

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• I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

  Rodger Kamenetz

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Intellectual

  Source: content.time.com

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• Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario.

  Pope Francis

  Pregnancy, Medical Problems, Evil

  In-flight interview from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

  Tommy Tenney

  Men, House Of Cards, People

  Tommy Tenney (2005). “God Chasers”, p.20, Destiny Image Publishers

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• ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Isis, Organization, Oil

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon. And it's one that is going to require a long, ideological war to win.

  Chuck Todd

  War, Winning, Long

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Stuff, Conviction, Deeper Love

  Twitter post from Mar 05, 2015

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• Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Cherish, Quiz, Knows

  Twitter post from May 29, 2015

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• Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

  Max Anders

  Errors, Risk, Doctrine

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• Theological error is the most pernicious of errors; it strikes at man's center and separates him from his Creator and Redeemer. God insisted not only that Israelites should judge their own hearts and cast aside falsehood about Him but that they should also confront it wherever it emerged.

  Max Anders

  Heart, Men, Errors

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• It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid the breaths of the seven gifts of the Spirit. It is natural for it to bear Christian fruit.

  Jacques Maritain

  Christian, Running, Gifts Of The Spirit

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• The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This means that ecclesiastical traditions and private theological speculations may never be identified with the word which God speaks, but are to be classed among the words of men which the Word of God must reform.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Mean, Men

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.69, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach and people who take an essentially theological approach, and the two really meet. The psychologists try to "understand" the Soviet Union. And try to ease its alleged fears. The theologians say the Soviets are evil.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Two, People, Evil

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• Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

  Roger E. Olson

  Guiding Principles, Belief, Deny

  Roger E. Olson (2009). “Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities”, p.41, InterVarsity Press

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• [Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

  N. T. Wright

  Sarcastic, Lonely, Giants

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• I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

  Umberto Eco

  Omnipotence, Differences, Choices

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• Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Squares, Yellow

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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